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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Centennial Exhibition , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius , Francis Daniel -1681 (search)
Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681
Author of A Particular Geographical Description of the Lately Discovered Province of Pennsylvania situated on the Frontiers of this Western World, America.
Published in Frankfort and Leipzig in 1700; translated from the original German by Lewis H. Weiss.
John G. Whittier, in an introductory note to his poem, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, wrote:
The beginning of German emigration to America may be traced to the personal influence of William Penn, who in 1677 visited the Continent, and made the acquaintance of an intelligent and highly cultivated circle of Pietists, or Mystics, who, reviving in the seventeenth century the spiritual faith and worship of Tauler and the Friends of God in the fourteenth, gathered about the pastor Spener, and the young and beautiful Eleonora Johanna von Merlau.
In this circle originated the Frankfort Land Company, which bought of William Penn, the governor of Pennsylvania, a tract of land near the new city of Philad
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prisoners for debt. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington 's inauguration, Centennial of (search)
White Mountains,
In New Hampshire, covering 1,300 square miles in several short ranges.
In the Presidential range tower the peaks of Mounts Washington, 6,286 feet; Adams, 5,819; Jefferson, 5,736; Madison, 5,381; Monroe, 5,396; Jackson, and others.
They were called Waumbek Methna by the Indians, a name adopted by Whittier in his ballad of Mary Garvin:
From the heart of Waumbek Methna.
From the lake that never fails, Falls the Saco in the green lap Of Conway's intervales.
Mount Washington has a carriage-road ascending its rocky slope to the summit.
The first cog-rail mountain railway in the world was built to the summit in 1868-69, rising 3,730 feet in less than 3 miles, the steepest grade being 13 1/2 inches in a yard.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittemore , Amos 1759 -1828 (search)
Whittemore, Amos 1759-1828
Inventor; born in Cambridge, Mass., April 19, 1759; reared a farmer; became a gunsmith; and then, with his brother, a manufacturer of cotton and wool-cards, or card-cloth.
He claimed to have invented a machine for puncturing the leather and setting the wires, which was patented in 1797.
Before that time the work had been performed slowly by hand.
The establishment of spinning machinery in New England (see Slater, Samuel) had made the business of card-making profitable, and so useful was Whittemore's machine that the patent was sold for $150,000. His brother Samuel afterwards repurchased it and carried on the business of making card-cloth.
Amos died in West Cambridge, March 27, 1828.
Whittier, John Greenleaf